spacy 2.0.8

v2.0.8: IS_CURRENCY, PhraseMatcher stability and bug fixes

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✨ New features and improvements

• NEW: Lexical attribute IS_CURRENCY via Token.is_currency for currency symbols.
• Add noun_chunks syntax iterator for Norwegian.
• Add get_beam_parse method in ArcEager.
• Revert changes to the Matcher in favour of the new and improved API (#1971) coming in v2.1.0.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #1706: Ensure files opened in from_disk are closed.
• Fix issue #1733: Make model loading from package compatible with Python 3.4.
• Fix issue #1832, #1928: Fix vector handling in init_model command.
• Fix issue #1915: Pass in hyperparameters correctly during begin_training.
• Fix issue #1924: Require html5lib in setup.py to prevent six error.
• Fix issue #1929: Correctly handle NER with pre-set sentence boundaries.
• Fix issue #1941: Improve documentation around model symlink on Windows.
• Fix issue #1949: Correct Matcher docs to only include ORTH and LOWER.
• Fix issue #1950: Fix bug in regex Matcher example.
• Fix issue #1959: Execute custom pipeline component when using Language.pipe.
• Fix issue #1964: Correct typo in glossary.
• Fix issue #1974: Don't set random.seed globally in CLI commands.
• Fix issue #1989: Correct documentation of match_id and improve example.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @ohenrik, @tokestermw, @azarezade, @piratos, @mhaddy, @pktippa, @mdcclv, @oxinabox, @SThomasP, @DuyguA, @emulbreh, @ursachec and @enerrio for the pull requests and contributions.